as the west remained silent russia condemns israel's alleged air strike on a syrian military research center near damascus which leads to people dead. concerns grow over the human cost of the french led military operation in mali amid a lack of information on civilian casualties and reports of government as prostitutes. and the british government raises twice as many taxes as it cuts so a new study shows how it's shelling out billions in revenues from people's pockets . one pm in the russian capital he watching r t a syria claims israel has carried out a deadly bombing raid on its territory destroying a military research center near damascus and denies claims the attack targeted

weapons convoy near the lebanese border if confirmed it would be the first time in decades that israel has launched an attack on another state not in response to military action israel and most international powers are keeping silent on the incident which has sparked condemnation from russia arches policy as more. if indeed this israeli military strike inside syria is concerned moscow has condemned it in the strongest possible terms saying that it was unprovoked and it was a strike against a sovereign state that is in violation of international law and is unacceptable now what we understand is that israeli warplanes bombed and this is according to syrian sources a military research same to outside damascus where at least two sites workers were killed now there are some reports also suggesting that the warplanes bombed a convoy of weapons that were making their way from syria to lebanon allegedly to on his beloved now the syrians have denied this now we are hearing from an unnamed

american official that prior to this incident tel aviv had in fact informed washington that it was planning a military attack inside syria there is the opinion that this attack could consolidate military forces inside syria against a common arab enemy namely israel and that it will merely bring them closer together and divert them away from fighting each other and instead to in their forces against israel israel for its side has declined to comment on the whole incident. i am as a q. at a tear off pan-african newswire says the alleged israeli air strike in syria is all part of a plan to bring down the acid government. it's quite interesting that the israeli government as well as the united states has not officially responded to this provocation against syria so it is inevitably a situation in which they are opening up a nother front in the war against the government of bashar al assad is part and parcel of a broader strategy part of that strategy of course has been

a deployment of patriot missiles in turkey which is also a nato country on the border with syria and then of course with the airstrikes this is designed to create a sense of encircled it in regard to the syrian government i think that the syrian government and those who are want are seeking a negotiated and political settlement to this crisis you know very well that this is only designed to weaken the syrian government and that it will not be successful because in the lower term on the ground the syrian government has maintained the military initiative against the various a rebel organizations who have been funded now for nearly two years to work havoc inside the country in an attempt to overthrow the government of bashar al assad. while israel is accused of intervening in the syrian conflict there are also claims it's trying to influence u.s. cabinet nominees as the u.s. says here is to decide whether chuck hagel will become the new defense secretary

later this hour we'll look at why his candidacy is annoying israeli lobbyists. in mali concerns are growing over how the french government forces are waging the war against islam it's rebels human rights groups and a pad of activists are raising the alarm over the information blackout on the number of civilian casualties during the french led intervention and a western backed troops are now being accused of war crimes charges go hold of exclusive images allegedly showing government forces atrocities local journalist has this report as we continue moving north we find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok to be in the center of the town like the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly

employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water and he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i wasn't a terrorist and i was just personally that on then i was put into prison i am no terrorist you need to know that i was working with militants and i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also reportedly becoming widespread in the area arabs and said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants you know the government and the french troops are fighting against a contact in timbuktu also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted.

whatever else to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he's not surprised by the developments in raleigh but i hear now is how this surprises me i mean that first of all the million army does hold a grudge against the people who asked them from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and have very little dominance at such as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can you really just of people and examine what they do you can't you just ground nic underlying that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly are doing this kind of actually judicial executions but entirely surprise me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs are moved why is it that this help only comes

in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves are also fears of sectarian or event attacks in mali following the french led military campaign more of this as well as images from the conflict torn country dot com. the u.s. senate is gearing up for a potentially heated confirmation hearing for the new defense secretary chuck hagel is counted as he is widely viewed as president obama's most controversial pick for t. pose during his presidency a decorated war veteran stance of seeing military force as

a last resort of pro israel a foreign policy has a track to both admiration and criticism but the way it letter has been far more vocal. reports chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated as president obama's pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be all who are december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between the commercials of beauty products drugs and what so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iraq eagles voted against the legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran says military action is not a viable feasible responsible option president obama or secretary of defense chuck

hagel is not a responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel so what that truck will do to deserve that as a u.s. senator chuck hagel has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that the chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s.

policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this one that he has been under attack take a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is a special and historic one but it need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and dangerous fault choice summersault president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating chuck hagel is his way of bringing down the tension and not much not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of

withdrawn their objections over charcoals domination some say could be because they were see behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy with the doxies. coming up this hour athens returns to the battlefield once more to use the tods and says hundreds of protesters stormed greece's labor ministry over pension cuts. plus it was president's dismisses opposition calls for a unity government as a country dives deeper into chaos amid i'm going clashes between opposition and police forces that are more right after a short break. if

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ok back to watching r t greece has been hit by another strike as transport workers and doctors protest against austerity measures it comes a day after fierce clashes broke out in athens with police using tear gas to

disperse crowds who tried to storm the labor minister's office lord george controlled those says this kind of crackdown on protesters is part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up all of the c. of zero dollars us as it sees ideas that is distance to their stated measurements so we have steam the government to take the medicine measures that they are unconstitutional against that he sent it now we have seen to order that were released very violently against identity and then was doing so well and seemed to last three or four weeks i complain of propaganda that i have to convince us that it now is it worse it's become that there is i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set the forces of which thirty minutes of the force the heroes has condemned to us of slow death that this

recession of the economy going to actually move the economy and a third source of measures followed by the vote of the population and also i think it's i think that as far as what we're following this said to of. there's not much. complicated in offering very little relief that's the assessment of the u.k. government's tax policies figures revealed by the taxpayers alliance show the coalition government has raced twice as many taxes as cut despite promises to ease the pain artie's probably boyko reports by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country needs that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of this hack says might be somewhat confusing the brits the same going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go

up they're also going to see an increase in air passenger g.t. which means more expensive travel and then some of the recent changes to. u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased. for hairdressers renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent hot baked goods scandal when u.k. tax code stated that a pastie would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex times. they kill jobs increases prices and it lowers wages so the time when families are struggling with the rising cost of living the idea show many times increases will really make life difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public finances which means that by

trimming a little bit of tax hair and adding more tax burden that by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. artsy london a later today max kaiser and stays in her focus on the british government and the tricks used to distract the public's attention from its financial mishandling. get it yet they are going turmoil has claimed more lives with at least two people shot dead during fresh clashes between protesters and police on cairo stuff for your square deadly violence has led to the opposition calling for talks with president morsi but the islamist leader has made it clear that unity government is not an option in our spring came during morsi is a visit to berlin where he was a german chancellor angela merkel hoping to get investment plan to visit france

next but returned home empty handed blogger and journalist wallace can dar says if morsi had received european backing gyptian public outrage would have only increased. i think the public the public will be very upset if foreign countries start lending a hand to president mohamed morsi while he is executing these very oppressive measures against his people his crackdown on a lot of freedoms sidelined. arrested people. and i think that. the sentiment in egypt is basically a rejection of mohamed morsi and the monopoly on power that he that he has and it's not so much as mohamed morsi he's he's viewed here as a puppet to the guidance bureau so unless he starts taking control and actually doing the steps taking the country forward towards

a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. well let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world in the u.s. alabama police have surrounded a term where a man has been holding a six year old boy captive for more than a day the youngster was kidnapped from a school bus on tuesday after the driver was shot dead the government's been identified as a sixty five year old retired truck driver by neighbors. one of the owners of a brazilian nightclub in which more than two hundred thirty people died in the fire his try to commit suicide while in custody a sound resource one of four people one of the four people arrested after the incident at investigation into the blaze has found evidence the club could have been over crowded fire extinguishers where unfunctional. seven members of a rescue operation have been killed while saving six trapped miners in northeast china it's believed that carbon monoxide was the cause of the deaths chinese mining

facilities help for safety record was dozens of employees losing their lives at work each year. well gary is government is expected to vote against resuming construction of a new nuclear power plant despite a recent referendum showing public support for the development the results were invalidated derail low turnout authorities cite the project's high cost as a reason for scrapping the plans but m.p. peter curb a shift says the plants would have paid off the coast of the nuclear power plant very good if you compare this you can compare for example with the price which you see in turkey with two different scenarios you can pay your money back for twelve or fourteen years and you know that the life of this type of characters you see the sixty or so in the next forty six or forty eight years to just printing money so that these are not very logical argument the true friend too much probably can so

there was a very strong commitment to campaign all the time. referendum with no very clear question and even there was a very interesting statement from the ruling party which they said that there was no sense from referendum or from the river in bills at all which is very interesting statement for the democracy. well don't forget you know always catch up with more news in law including doing of wild west stuff with gods the story of the yang of russia who brought a suburban train to hold but my wasn't what they were looking for all the details and eyewitness accounts are available online. why in the us good school grades could earn the muslim students an excuse for a couple minutes prayer during class time.

the chairman of webb john google has set out his vision for the future of the internet in a gloomy forecast eric schmidt suggest people's online id could be taken hostage in an online form of kidnapping r.t.c. corp is going to offer has more. the image of a human future liberated by technology and hunger teleportation and so on just got a reality those from a guy who knows eric schmidt who is worth one point five billion dollars and the chairman of google voiced his views on in the internet and the dangers that lurk within it warned that as technology becomes cheaper and easier to use cyber terrorists could use the web to run a drone war essential nerd in california could fly a drone strike a target in a remote part of the world in fact schmidt says hackers will be known as cyber terrorists could well become the targets of the same drones but it's not only about potential terrorists states and governments can use cyber technology to isolate and

distort the lives of their critics call this online ethnic cleansing moreover a cyber identities that's your online avatar in social networks could be taken hostage for ransom actually there are already cases of hackers remotely blocking personal computers and demanding cash tool or feek cyber identities me soon also form a global black market where users will be able to buy an identity the always dreamed of in real life also pointed to the record so much of our lives is stored on servers now any past mistakes will be there for all the world to see typically at the worst possible moment when you're applying for that job mortgage making the marriage proposal or running to become president in fact the lives of everyone will be so public turns will have to teach children about cyber safety before safe sex well these are only predictions but smith's depressing vision for the internet is

a reminder to be careful whatever you post and do online may bite you back when you least expect it. and more international news and around thirty minutes but for now at spotlight with al gore nothing after short break. you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the illusion of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of them may be working at your local school braindead bureaucracy zombies at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with

a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia. the future

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